Hi,my girlfriend has an asus eee 1001HA netbook with Ralink rt3090 wifi. In previous Ubuntu and Mint distros it was quite simple to make it work. There was also a lot of topics about it. But it took me ages to make it work in Ubuntu 12.10/Mint 14. The wifi actually worked out of box, but connection was slow with frequent drop outs.

rt3090-dkms is not included for ubuntu 12.10 in ppa:markus-tisoft/rt3090... rt2860sta is not included in 3.x kernel...ndiswrapper has some weird issues when using Ralink windows drivers...turning off the wifi power management also did not work...

After spending hours of googling I finally found working solution. Tim Felgate on launchpad wrote:

I have applied a solution recommended at http://askubuntu.com/questions/84959/ra ... ot-working which involved changing the settings in /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless to disable power management of the wireless card. My network card is rt3090 and the driver is rt2800 as installed from the 12.04 LTS desktop CD (64-bit). This has stopped the drop outs.

In my view, this solution should have very similar effect as "sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off", but iwconfing did not do the trick in my case.

rt2800 with power save mode off is much better then with psm on, but connection i still not as reliable as before. After other research i have to say that the best way is to compile original driver from Ralink - no problems with connection strenght and speed. It has only one disadvantage - driver MUST BE REBUILT after every kernel update.

BTW I have moved your topic to the 'How to' section and altered the title a little to make it clearer what it is about.

Thanks for moving the topic. The title is unfortunately inexact, because its about increasing the performance of rt3090 wifi. It should be something like "Increasing performace of rt3090 wifi" or "Better performance rt3090 wifi". Sorry for my english

Great thread, very useful. I wish I had known all this stuff 7 months ago. I have been struggling with horrible wifi on my RT3090 since November 2012 when I loaded Mint on my Acer Nettop. I also tried Lubuntu but it also doesn't work with the RT3090. It was so frustrating I almost gave up on Linux but I finally just replaced the wifi card with a ThinkPenguin wifi card which works perfectly.